The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-31

for some time TO come but the least the pro-
prieto4s do is TO limit the speed OF trains TO
a rate corresponding to the condition OF the
track they have to travel upon
Making the rates from Kansas City and
other Western points the same 70 iodian-
apolis as are made to Chicago begins TO tell In
the receipts of cattle and hogs at the lnoianap-
oils yards. Last week Belt road engines handled
1277 carloads OF live stock against I4o the cor
responding week in 1856. Increase this year,
529 cars
C. W Fairbanks general solicitor of the l., B.
e. w. who has been East for some weeks, re-
turned Saturday evening. DE states that every
thing as regards the reorganization and CONSOLE
dation of the several roads in the l.. b. 81 w.
system is moving along smoothly, and the work
will be accomplished within the next sixty days
without question
Within the last few weeks the Vandalia man
agement has been doing good deal in the way
of filing up trestles. Where the road crosses
Clear creek. stone arches have been put in. and
the lengthy trestes over which the approaches
to the bridge were made. have been filed On
the T. Fl. & L. division good deal of work Of
this character has been done recently
All the way stations on the first division of
the c.. St l.. & P. road are being repainted in
an attractive manner. The painting force have
a car on which they carry their ladders, stock,
etc.. and when they wish to go from ono station
to another their car is attached to one OF the
trains and there is little delay. The
force is big enough to paint one station per day.
The convention Of the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers, in session at Chicago, on
Saturday concluded the election Of officers by
choosing Nicholas Long. of Chattanooga Tenn.
grand chaplain. The convention also concluded
its consideration of the lifeinsurance organiza-
ton connected with the brotherhood and made
some slight amendments to its constitution and
bylaws.
The Railroad Gazette says: "A few weeks
ago chronicled the fact that the Pennsyl-
vania railroad had outdone all its competitors in
Ia lin ~ N
porter who was called a matron; but an added
touch OF refinement has now appeared, and we
hasten TO make note of the fact that the next
excursion will have, not a marron, out ia cha
perone."
The Vandalia is proiting handsomely from
the traffic they receive from the Toledo. St.
Louis q Kansas City road. which turns all o.
their through west bound business over to the
Vandalia at Frankfort, Ind This arrangement
is to continue. it is understood, until the T., st.
L. & K c. road is widened to standard guage
between Frankfort and ST. Louis, which will be
some months yet
Since the Indianapolis q st. Louis was built
the company has claimed that this line was
nearly onehalf mile shorter than the Vandelia
between Indiana polis & Terre Haute, but IN the
last two years the Vandalia has done good
deal in strengthening curves. cutting down
grades and filling hollows, and now have, it is
claimed, few rods the shortest road between
the points above named.
The advance in export rates which goes into
effect to morrow will not: it is thought, seri-
are already appointing agents at the seaboard
to whom they will consign their shipments of
grain. -four or provisions. aud said agents will
get the best ocean rates they can, and doubtless
in many cases the combined rail and ocean rate
will be lower than those which lave prevailed
for some weeks past
p Fl. Blue general superintendent OF the In
diana 81 Southern Illinois railroad has con-
tracts with the Massillon Bridge Company to
erect an iron bridge $50 feet in length over the
Embarrass river near Newton. Ill. The bridge
VIII De o, tne same capacity ana oeslsn as the
several bridges erected. this year for the big
Four" by the abovenamed company. The
change OF gauge to standard on the l. & !. 5.
railway Is under way, heing partly completed
The question Of who shall succeed Geo. Ben
der as general supsrin tendent of the Indianapo-
lis, Decatur g. Springfield road was settled off,
cially on Saturday, President Hammond
pointing L. A. Boyd to fill the position, thus
carrying out the slate published in the Journal
on the retirement of j. w. Sherwood from the
superintendency Of the c., l., St L. & G. Messrs.
Bender and Boyd are young men with excellent
records as railroad men, and are Unidentified with
Indianapolis. both owning pleasant homes here.
new schedule Of wages takes effect on the
Wabash road proper tomorrow. There is a
revision in mileage of freight men. and conduc
tors who are required by order of a superior
officer to deadhead over any district on the COM
panys business will receive one half the regular
pay per diem for time spent and for attending
court as witness at company's request they shall
receive So per diem and 81 per day extra for
board. The pay for brakemen under similar
circumstances ID omen pay, y ana $l per DAY
respectively.
r. St John. former general passenger agent
OF the Chicago & Rock Island road, now general
manager of the property, is showing himself to
be as competent to fill his present position
he was his former He is making money and
friends for the road. His manliness of charac-
ter was aptly illustrated on Friday last when
approached by a reporter of the press regards
the wreck on the road. He promptly replied:
I'VE have information which will not
readily and willingly give you" And forthwith
he placed at the disposal of the newsgatherer
the official report he had received from the
of the occurrence. Mr.. St. John is not
narrow minded enough to suppose that the de-
tails should or could be suppressed, that the
puplic were not entitled to all the information
in his possession. Mr.. ST Johns course should
be initiated by other railroad officials who may
be unfortunate as to have disasters on their
roads.